Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Motions

Middle East conflict

Anasina GRAY-BARBERIO (Northern Metropolitan) (13:30): I move, by leave:

That this house:

(1) notes with grave concern that, after more than 11 weeks of Israel’s total aid blockade, humanitarian access to Gaza remains severely limited, with insufficient food, no hygiene supplies and no fuel permitted, leaving 2.1 million people in critical need;

(2) further notes that:

(a) famine threatens Gaza’s entire population, with nearly half a million people facing starvation and at least 57 children reportedly having died from malnutrition, likely an underestimate;

(b) nearly 71,000 children under five are expected to be acutely malnourished within the next 11 months without adequate food and medical access;

(3) condemns the ongoing violence, including the killing of 629 Palestinians in the past week alone, with at least 148 women and children among the dead;

(4) acknowledges UN Women’s estimate that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, an average of one woman or girl killed every hour;

(5) reaffirms Australia’s obligation under the Convention on the Rights of the Child to uphold the protection of children in all conflict zones;

(6) affirms that the safety, dignity and rights of all children, including Palestinian children, must be upheld and protected without exception;

(7) recognises that the Palestinians are facing an imminent and extreme risk of mass ethnic cleansing;

(8) opposes the state of Israel’s ongoing invasion of Gaza and its blatant disregard for international law, civilian protection and the sanctity of human life; and

(9) supports urgent calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.

Leave refused.